Tag: second-brain
All the articles with the tag "second-brain".
How I Think with AI (Beyond Prompting)
Ever ask AI for help and get a polished, confident answer that completely misses the mark? Here's how I think with AI — beyond prompting — to get past impressive-sounding noise to real help.
Defeating the Hedonic Treadmill
The hedonic treadmill, named from a 1971 study of lottery winners, explains why we snap back to a happiness baseline after good and bad alike — and how a digital second brain helps me beat it.
How I Use Generative AI to Think Better
A Murdle logic puzzle stumped me — thanks to a cognitive bias I couldn't see. Here's how I use generative AI to think through problems instead of around them.
An Idea At Play — Aim High Keynote Intro
Yesterday I was blessed enough to speak to the Boys Team Charity, a youth association to help young men find purpose in giving back. My talk focused on…
An Idea At Play
For a while, I have been playing with this idea that balance is different than I learned it was. Balance is a verb. What most people think of as balance…
"Today's Idea At Play"
I have this burning desire to write something, but I don’t know what. It’s weird. I sat down and wrote 15 blog posts in a row, day after day, and it felt…
What Does It Take to Be a Lifelong Learner?
Motorola once mandated forty hours of training a year to turn everyone into a lifelong learner. What that experiment — and gaming other people's slots — taught me about continuous learning.
Ideas At Play
Studying Constructed Emotion Theory convinced me I need to change how I present. You can't hand people finished information like a spreadsheet — brains simply don't work that way.
Your Brain — An Amazing Prediction Engine
Neuroscience is revealing that your brain produces your experience of reality rather than just reacting to it. Why that flips how we understand perception and everyday interaction.
The Weird Science of How We Make Emotions
Reading Lisa Feldman Barrett's 'How Emotions Are Made,' I was struck by its overlap with the obscure work of Stephen Grossberg. The weird, unsettling science of how we make emotions.
To List Or Not To List
Is the humble to-do list actually worth it? A 1918 story about Bethlehem Steel's Charles Schwab and efficiency expert Ivy Lee kicks off my take on whether lists really work.
Day 1 — How I Learn
Note**: _This entry starts day 1 of 15 consecutive days I intend to practice a tiny experiment, sharing how I am trying to learn how to help parents and…